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To which realistic disadvantage of the originator? Even in a scenario in which this becomes common practice and in which other organizations are indeed reusing
by thesumofall 4y ago
To which realistic disadvantage of the originator? Even in a scenario in which this becomes common practice and in which other organizations are indeed reusing the shared code (and that is a big if!), you could still argue that the originator benefits by attracting talent, shaping standards, positioning themselves as digital leaders, bringing transparency into what happens with taxpayers money, ...
- scoopertrooper 4y agoIt's a classic free rider problem. Some jurisdictions will chronically under invest because they can rely on the largesse of others. The incentive for every jurisdiction would be to degenerate into becoming free riders. This doesn't happen in the corporate world (as much) because of various factors such as tax incentives and market pressures, but would be much more likely in the stately world of government IT. A better solution would be license the code, such that it could not be used to provide public services unless the governing body contributed to a development association (either in money, code contributions, or some mixture thereof).
- brnt 4y ago> The incentive for every jurisdiction would be to degenerate into becoming free riders. Only societies starved of ideas other than lowest common denominator free-market thinking. In reality societies choose to do the thng that cost money, for no other reason than that they want the outcome. We do tons of things for no specific (short term) gain. Some would say that this is what sets a great civilization apart from the rest.
- panick21_ 4y agoIts not a classic free rider problem. Because the service does not degrade for the people who originally wrote the software. The original authors couldn't care less if somebody else under invests.